Basically somebody was talking about how socialism is when everybody gets paid the same and so nobody would want to work hard, I told them they were clueless and go read about what socialism is before shit talking it and they said ok what book should I read? I’m not sure I should recommend anything too complicated to somebody who knows nothing. I feel like Socialism Utopian and Scientific might be too old to connect. Any good primers y’all could recommend?
I understand what you’re saying, and I agree. But I know for myself all the “dialectics” stuff was way above my comprehension when I first got into socialism. I picked that side up as I went along. I think it would be easy to turn someone off by throwing deep theoretical concepts at them straight away (especially someone who is already coming from a place of “I don’t like socialism”).
I definitely agree with your thoughts though, once you flick that dialectics switch in someone’s brain you give them an incredible tool in terms of viewing the world/history. Maybe throw the podcast in along with some more 101 type resource and say “by the way, that sPoOkY Marxism stuff you’ve heard about all your life? It’s literally just a way of analysing the world - here’s a pod that explains it in like 90 minutes”.